Bribing governments

Nov 09, 2026 Editorial, News

(Kaieteur News) – Why should it surprise, that so many white-collar crimes go uninvestigated and unpunished? Why should it jolt the system, as citizens are now learning, that a major crime, such as murder, went uncharged? What was as big as a public secret could get is now enjoying the sanitising of sunlight, due to the long-delayed revelations that the governments accepted bribes from an alleged criminal perpetrator. The court proceedings involving the Mohameds have stirred up old suspicions, given life to long held beliefs, and put the government of the last two, even three, decades under significant heat.

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As it stands currently, there is a packed basket of crimes lodged against the Mohameds, one of whom is Guyana’s leader of the opposition. They range from bloodless white-collar crimes to ones where blood flooded the street, as in murder. It is helpful that the new allegations are coming out now. But does the law and the upholding of it, does this country’s system of justice and the delivery of it, have to depend on friends and allies falling out in the worst way, and becoming the ugliest of political foes? That is not justice. That is corruption on a magnitude still to be believed. When evidence of murder lead in a direction, with the smoking guns well in hand, and there is no charge of murder, how many millions made the loss of a life worthless? The question is relevant. There is the latest allegation from a prosecutor of the people of successive governments of Guyana being bribed by the Mohameds for decades.